Editing Sun Language Theory (section)

==Tenets==
As described in a 1936 ''[[New York Times]]'' article on the curriculum of the newly opened School of Language, History, and Geography of [[Ankara University]], the theory<ref name="nytimes" /><blockquote>claims that [insofar as] the Sumerians, being Turks, originat[ed] in Central Asia, all languages also consequently originated there and [were] first used by the Turks. The first language, in fact, came into being in this way: Prehistoric man, i.e., Turks in the most primitive stage, was so struck by the effects of the sun on life that he made of it a deity whence sprang all good and evil. Thence came to him light, darkness, warmth, and fire, with it were associated all ideas of time: height, distance, movement, size, and give expression to his feelings. The sun was thus the first thing to which a name was given. It was "ag" {{Sic||expected=It is originally written as "ağ".}} (pronounced agh), and from this syllable all words in use today are derived. This, briefly, is the theory about the "sun language," and with the new conception of Turkish history it will be taught in the new Angora school.</blockquote>Based upon a heliocentric view of the origin of civilization and human languages, the theory claimed that the Turkish language was the language which all civilized languages derived from.<ref>Cemal Kafadar (1996.). ''Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State''. [[University of California Press]]. P. 163.</ref> According to the theory, the first people to speak were the superior race of the Alpine Brachycephalic Turks, which spread throughout the earth in the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, therefore providing the people in all civilizations with the benefits of the language.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Szurek|first=Emmanuel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b-W9wgEACAAJ|title=Kemalism: Transnational Politics in the Post-Ottoman World|date=2019|publisher=[[I.B. Tauris]]|isbn=978-1-78831-372-8|editor-last=Clayer|editor-first=Nathalie|pages=265|language=en}}</ref> 

Some of the words provided with false Turkish etymologies through the practice of ''[[:wikt:goropism|goropism]]'' were ''God'', attributed to the Turkish ''kut'';<ref name=":3">[[Geoffrey Lewis (scholar)|Lewis, Geoffrey]] (2002).p.60</ref> ''Bulletin'' from Turkish ''bülten,''<ref name=":4">[[Geoffrey Lewis (scholar)|Lewis, Geoffrey]] (2002). pp.62–63</ref> ''belleten'';<ref>{{Cite book|last=Landau|first=Jacob M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_n93Kq5PwMC|title=Atatürk and the Modernization of Turkey|date=1984|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-07070-7|location=|pages=207|language=en|author-link=Jacob M. Landau}}</ref><ref name=":4" /> or ''Electric'' from [[Uyghur language|Uyghur]] ''yaltrık'' (shine).<ref name=":3" /> But also foreign words like the French [[:fr:Wattman|wattman]], in French stemming from [[watt]] and [[man]], were claimed to be of Turkish origin by a Turkish scholar.<ref name=":0">Landau, Jacob M. (1984). p.211</ref> Other prominent examples are Greek mythological figures like [[Aphrodite]] from [[wiktionary:avrat|avrat]], or [[Artemis]] from [[wiktionary:tertemiz|tertemiz]].<ref name=":0" /> According to linguist Ghil'ad Zuckermann, "it is possible that the Sun Language Theory was adopted by [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk|Atatürk]] in order to legitimize the Arabic and Persian words which the Turkish language authorities did not manage to uproot. This move compensated for the failure to provide a neologism for every foreignism/loanword."<ref>Zuckermann, Ghil’ad (2003), [http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=140391723X ‘‘Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew’’] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201235515/http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=140391723X |date=2014-02-01 }}, Houndmills: [[Palgrave Macmillan]], {{ISBN|1-4039-1723-X}}, p. 165.</ref>